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  1. intransitive verb To be alive; exist.
  2. intransitive verb To continue to be alive: lived through a bad accident.
  3. intransitive verb To support oneself; subsist: living on rice and fish; lives on a small inheritance.
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  • “It’s only against the law out where they used to live is what Jake says.” —  Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 45
  • We would have let your father live, as we let the stag live in the forest so that it may breed with the doe. —  Vittorio, The Vampire
  • "Gorky," Sarah said, searching for words in English, "live ..." —  Rostnikov's Vacation
  • "Recorded live" comes from a broadcast associate. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
  • Not so with humans. —  The Legacy of Heorot
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English liven, from Old English libban, lifian; see leip- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Short for alive.

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  1. from Middle English liven, livien, luvien, libben, from Anglo-Saxon lifian, lyfian, leofian, libban (preterit lifode) = Old Saxon libbian = OFries. leva, liva, libba = D. Middle Low German Low German leven = Old High German lebēn, Middle High German G. leben = Icelandic lifa = Danish leve = Swedish lefva = Gothic (Moesogothic) liban (preterit libaida), live, in Icelandic also remain, be left (cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) af-lifnan, be left); a secondary verb, from the stem of Anglo-Saxon *līfan (in comp. belīfan = Old Saxon bilībhan = OFries. bilīva = Dutch blijven = Old High German bilīban, Middle High German belīben, blīben = Danish blive = Swedish blifva), remain, be left, whence also ult. Anglo-Saxon līf, life, lǣfan, leave, lāf, what is left: see life, leave, lave.
  2. By apheresis from alive, orig. on life (Middle English on live): see alive. As now used alive is retained in the orig. predicate use, while live is exclusively employed in the attributive use.
 

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